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title: Assets
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Asset entities are used primarily in Apache Usergrid to manage binary data
objects such as images, video, and audio content. However, an asset does
not have to be used for a binary object. For example, assets can be used
to model a file system.


  Property       Type     Description
  -------------- -------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  uuid           UUID     Asset’s unique entity ID
  type           string   "asset"
  name           string   Asset name (mandatory)
  created        long     [UNIX timestamp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) of entity creation
  modified       long     [UNIX timestamp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) of entity modification
  owner          UUID     UUID of the asset’s owner (mandatory)
  path           string   Relative path to the asset (mandatory)
  content-type   string   Content type of the asset (for example, “image/jpeg”)